Mr Sadr has strong support in north-east Baghdad's Shia slums, formerly known as Saddam City but which his followers have renamed al-Sadr City.
Loudspeakers at Sadr City mosques announced al-Sadr's warning Saturday evening, calling for followers to fight the "occupier, " a witness said.
Asked about the possibility of government operations in Sadr City, al-Ageili said there is a committee led by al-Sadr that is monitoring events and issues directives accordingly.
Not all Shiite militants involved in the Sadr City fighting are members of al-Sadr's Mehdi army.
In Baghdad's Sadr City slum, the stronghold of al-Sadr and his Madhi Army, tens of thousands of young men marched through the streets demanding al-Maliki's resignation.
Government offensives against Shiite militants in Basra, Amara and Baghdad's Sadr City and against al Qaeda in Iraq in the Mosul region illustrate Iraqi competency and resolve, Tribus said.
The U.S. military has said the Shiite militias in Sadr City are Iranian-backed cells who have not obeyed al-Sadr's freeze of Mehdi army military activities.
Authorities in Baghdad eased a stiff, citywide curfew Monday, but a vehicle ban remained in place in Sadr City, Shula and Kadhimiya -- three neighborhoods seen as al-Sadr strongholds.
He comes from Sadr City, a gigantic slum that is the power center for Muqtada al-Sadr, a political and militia leader.
At least three people were killed in radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Baghdad stronghold of Sadr City, and 21 were wounded, the official said.
The U.S. warning came on the same day an Interior Ministry official said at least seven people were killed in intense fighting between Iraqi Security Forces and Mehdi Army militiamen loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City.
The rocket fire is coming from Sadr City, the Shiite enclave mostly controlled by the militia leader and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Two of those attacks happened in Sadr City and one was in the al-Hurriya neighborhood, police officials said.
Shiite militiamen loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are fighting for control of the southern city of Basra, and that fighting has now spread to Baghdad.
"Thanks to God for the agreement that we reached ... to end the crisis in Sadr City which left hundreds of martyrs and more than this number of wounded, " said al-Sadr spokesman Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi.
Al-Sadr urged people to converge on Najaf, the city south of Baghdad that is holy to Shiite Muslims and where the Sadrists have their main office.
For instance, this week one of Mr Sadr's prominent members of parliament, Hassan al-Rubaei, walked out in protest against the fighting in Sadr City.
He lamented the situation in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is holed up with his Mehdi Army militia and surrounded by coalition troops.
In exchange, al-Sadr said he wants the majority of coalition forces to leave the holy city, followed by a "broad discussion" about the future of his Mehdi Army in Iraq, al-Rubaie said.
CNN: Coalition estimates 50 killed in Iraqi cleric's militia
Abbas al-Rubaie, an official with the cleric's office in Baghdad's Sadr City, said gunmen in a parked car opened fire Sunday on four militia members on a routine patrol.
Al-Maliki said he plans actions in other cities and Baghdad neighborhoods, such as Sadr City, Shula and Amiriya, and vowed that the military will "be 100 percent ready" when it embarks on those operations.
In the past few weeks Iraq's prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has belied a reputation for weakness by sending the army to take control of the port city of Basra and the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City, both strongholds until then of the powerful militia run by Muqtada al-Sadr, a vehemently anti-American Shia cleric.
"This aggression wouldn't have happened had it not been for the presence of the occupiers who brought these companies, " al-Sadr's political committee said in a statement issued by his office in the holy city of Najaf.
During the four-day cease-fire, the government will reopen all entrances to Sadr City, allowing necessary aid to flow in and the wounded to be evacuated, al-Obeidi said.
U.S. troops remain massed on the outskirts of the holy Shiite city of Najaf, but it remains under the control of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia.
As the spring began, al-Maliki cracked down on militants in the southern city of Basra and in Baghdad's large Sadr City slum.
Then, on Saturday, al-Sadr issued what he called a "last warning" to the government and told his followers in Sadr City to fight the occupier.
Sadr City, the scene of Tuesday's deadly blast, is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and where some of the capital's most intense fighting in recent months has occurred between Shiite militia members and Iraqi security forces.
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